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Gaming PCs - help please

lizzy49

My son wants to buy a gaming PC. His last PC cost him £500 and only lasted a year. Please can anyone advise on reliable places to buy a PC or anywhere I can get good advice. He is obsessed with replacing his PC as soon as possible and is becoming increasingly stressed about it. I dont have the skills or knowledge to help him. Help please

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    I would tend to agree with outraged hence my comments about resistance to sales people. Having said that, many of the pc guys there are geeky types and my last couple of visits have been ok.

    If your son is old enough to spend that sort of money on a gaming pc then he could well be old enough to replace a motherboard! If it is a desktop type pc then this isn't too big a job.

    John Lewis will sell you a very good pc for that budget. It might not look like a gaming rig but that shouldn't matter if the processor and graphics card are up to spec.

    what sort of computer was the old one? Can he salvage graphics card etc and put them into a bare box?

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    I would tend to agree with outraged hence my comments about resistance to sales people. Having said that, many of the pc guys there are geeky types and my last couple of visits have been ok.

    If your son is old enough to spend that sort of money on a gaming pc then he could well be old enough to replace a motherboard! If it is a desktop type pc then this isn't too big a job.

    John Lewis will sell you a very good pc for that budget. It might not look like a gaming rig but that shouldn't matter if the processor and graphics card are up to spec.

    what sort of computer was the old one? Can he salvage graphics card etc and put them into a bare box?

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